APPROPRIATION OF THE URBAN SPACE IN PUEBLA, MEXICO, ACCORDING TO THE ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY

The streets of the Puebla City Downtown [PCD] are unusually narrow and have lots of misplaced potholes and damaged sewers. In addition, many peddlers occupy the sidewalks and make it difficult for pedestrians to move. This situation hinders mobility in this area. We consider it necessary to promote the common and sustainable use of urban public space. Therefore, we aimed at knowing how some agents manage the use of some of the PCD public spaces. We adopted Actor-Network Theory as a theoretical framework and carried out a quasi-ethnographicapproach. We observed and interacted with agents who appropriated the public space and hindered urban mobility in the PCD. We present the "networked actions" deployed by these agents and offer some conceptual elements that must be considered to re-assemble the social and constructing a common world, which we call cosmos.